Accredited Standards Committee* X3, Information Processing Systems Doc. No.: X3T9.2/93-033r1 Date: March 22, 1993 Project: Ref. Doc.: Reply to: John Lohmeyer To: Membership of X3T9.2 From: Lawrence J. Lamers, Secretary X3T9.2 John B. Lohmeyer, Chair X3T9.2 Subject: Minutes of X3T9.2 Plenary Meeting #104 Austin, TX -- February 15-16, 1993 Agenda 1. Opening Remarks 2. Approval of Agenda 3. Attendance and Membership 3.1 Roll Call of Members in Jeopardy 4. Approval of Minutes - December Meeting San Diego, CA (92-229 R0) 5. Document Distribution 6. Liaison Reports and Call for Patents 6.1 ISO [Milligan] 6.2 IT8 [Lohmeyer] 6.3 Fibre Channel [Allan] 6.4 Small Form Factor Industry Group [Allan] 6.5 IEEE P1394 [Smyers] 6.6 SSA Status [Scheible] 6.7 IEEE P1285 Status 6.8 Call for Patents 6.9 PCMCIA Report [Barnes] 7. Review of Old Action Items 8. Working Group and/or Project Status Reports 8.1 Project Status Summary [Lohmeyer] 8.2 SCSI General Working Group (X3T9.2/93-006) [Lohmeyer] 8.3 SCSI-2 Status [Lamers] 8.4 SCSI Common Access Method (CAM) 8.5 AT Attachment Status (ATA) [Allan] 8.6 ATA Extensions [Finch] 8.7 SCSI-3 Architecture Model (SAM) Status [Monia] 8.8 SCSI-3 Parallel Interface (SPI) Status [Lamers] *Operating under the procedures of The American National Standards Institute. X3 Secretariat, Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association (CBEMA) 1250 Eye Street NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20005-3922 Telephone: 202-737-8888 (Press 1 twice) FAX: 202-638-4922 or 202-628-2829 Minutes of X3T9.2 Plenary Meeting #104 in Austin, TX X3T9.2/93-033R1 8.9 SCSI-3 Interlocked Protocol (SIP) Status [Lamers] 8.10 SCSI-3 Generic Packetized Protocol (GPP) Status [Stephens] 8.11 SCSI-3 Serial Bus Protocol (SBP) Status [Gardner] 8.12 SCSI-3 Fiber Channel Protocol (FCP) Status [Snively] 8.13 SCSI-3 Primary Commands (SPC) Status [Weber] 8.14 SCSI-3 Block Commands [Lamers] 8.15 SCSI-3 Stream Commands [Stephens] 8.16 SCSI-3 Graphics Commands 8.17 SCSI-3 Medium Changer Commands [Stephens] 8.18 Directly-Addressable Device Interface (DADI) 8.19 SCSI Common Access Method -2 (CAM-2) (93-015) [Dallas] 8.20 RAID Study Group (93-005) [Penokie] 9. Old Business 9.1 Synchronization Status and Errors (92-130R2) [DeKoning] 9.2 Proposal to add a disconnect unconditionally after command phase (92-133 R7) [Smyers] 9.3 SCSI Caching Large Segment Control (92-217) [Milligan] 9.4 Power Pin Compatibility Issue Revisited (90-199,91-23) [McGrath] 9.5 Call for Volunteers, X3T9.2 Chair and Vice-Chair (X3T9.2/92-208 & 209) 9.6 Format Track LBA Proposal (92-185) [Leach] 9.7 Global Logging Target Save Disable Bit (92-218R1) [Milligan] 10. New Business 10.1 SPI Forwarding Motion [Lamers] 10.2 Letter Ballot Results on Forwarding ATA (90-143r3.3) 10.3 TTD and CONTINUE I/O PROCESS revisited (93-12) [Houlder] 10.4 Shall the COPY, COMPARE, and COPY AND VERIFY commands be retained in SCSI- 3? 10.5 Cache Control [Milligan] (92-217) 10.6 Review of new documents 10.7 ICON Visibility 10.8 READ LONG command [Milligan] 10.9 Agenda for the March X3T9.2 General Working Group 10.10 Authorization of Contract Editing Work [Lamers] 10.11 SCSI Consortium [Harris] 11. Review of Action Items 12. Meeting Schedule 12.1 Working Group Schedule 12.2 Authorization of Working Group Meetings 12.3 Planned Schedule for July Working Group/Plenary Meeting Week 13. Adjournment Results of Meeting 2 Minutes of X3T9.2 Plenary Meeting #104 in Austin, TX X3T9.2/93-033R1 1. Opening Remarks John Lohmeyer, the Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m., Monday February 15, 1993. He thanked Mike Shoemake of Motorola for hosting the meeting. John said that the X3 Secretariat prefers receiving membership changes on the "X3 Subgroup Membership Forms" which were available on the document table. He said that people should use the X3 forms to insure the X3 Secretariat has the latest membership information. The forms should be mailed to the X3 Secretariat with a copy to John Lohmeyer. As is customary, the people attending introduced themselves. A copy of the attendance list was circulated for attendance and corrections. Copies of the draft agenda and the recent document register were made available to those attending. Information on X3T9.2 and Mailing Subscription Forms were made available. 2. Approval of Agenda The draft agenda was approved with the following addition: 9.8 Serial Protocols 3. Attendance and Membership The membership requirements were reviewed. X3 rules permit one vote per organization. An individual from a new organization must attend two out of three consecutive plenary meetings. He/she may apply for voting membership the second meeting via a letter to the Chair of X3T9.2. The individual may vote at the second plenary meeting. Working group meetings do not count toward attendance requirements. With the termination of 3 organizations for nonattendance (see 3.1), the X3T9.2 voting membership is now at 59 organizations down from 62 at the last meeting. Enclosure (1) is the list of the people present at the meeting and enclosure (2) is the current X3T9.2 membership list. 3.1 Roll Call of Members in Jeopardy The Chair said he had sent jeopardy letters to 28 people from 12 organizations for lack of meeting attendance: Burndy, BusLogic, Ciprico, Connector Industry Consulting Group, Foxconn, Hirose, Honda, Micropolis, NEK, NIST, Quantum, and Storage Technology. The letters said that these organizations had failed to attend two of the last three plenary meetings and that their membership would be terminated unless they attended this meeting. The letters also informed these people of the committee’s ability to retain their membership under special circumstances in spite of their failure to attend. Representatives were present from all of the organizations except: Connector Industry Consulting Group, Micropolis, and NEK. The P and A members from these organizations were changed to observer status. The Chair also sent jeopardy letters to all members from: Berk-Tek, Burndy, Honda, Micropolis, and Texas Instruments for failure to return the letter ballots from September ’92 and November ’92. The rules are slightly different in that the chair must send warning letters to those organizations that fail to return letter ballots from two successive mailings. If the organization fails to return the next (third) letter ballot, then their membership is terminated. All of these organizations returned the January ’93 letter ballot so there were no terminations for failure to return letter ballots. 3 Minutes of X3T9.2 Plenary Meeting #104 in Austin, TX X3T9.2/93-033R1 4. Approval of Minutes - December Meeting San Diego, CA (92-229 R0) The minutes were approved as written. 5. Document Distribution John Lohmeyer said that the committee mailing had gone out the first week of January and some West coast members received their copies early in the second week of January; he appreciated the promptness of the X3 Secretariat. Members who have any problems with their mailing subscription should deal directly with Katrina Gray at (202) 626-5741. Larry Lamers requested that all documents for the next mailing must be sent so as to be received by noon on Thursday, March 18, 1993. Documents received after this date will go into a subsequent mailing. Larry Lamers reminded the committee of the requirements for document submission to be included in the committee mailing. Since X3T9.2 meets its CBEMA document archiving requirements by including CBEMA on the mailing list, documents included in the mailing must be suitable for microfilming. This means that high-quality, single-sided originals with adequate margins and proper identification must be submitted. Document X3T9.2/92-84 R1 contains the list of requirements for submissions. As usual, minutes are also available on the SCSI BBS (719-574-0424) and will be distributed to the SCSI Reflector E-mail list. To be added to the SCSI Reflector, send an electronic message to: [email protected]. The current document register is enclosure (3). Please note that Global Engineering Documents has relocated to Colorado. The new address is: Global Engineering Documents 15 Inverness Way East Englewood, CO 80112-5704 Telephone: 800-854-7179 or 303-792-2181 Facsimile: 303-792-2192 6. Liaison Reports and Call for Patents 6.1 ISO [Milligan] Gene Milligan, the X3T9 International Representative, gave an oral report and later provided an electronic report to X3T9: ISO Report 2/93 There has been a fairly high number of documents distributed recently which relate to X3T9 activity. Several votes are needed at this X3T9 meeting to continue the processing of active projects. Some of these votes are necessitated by the more meticulous application of procedures or operating preferences by the X3 Secretariat and/or their alter ego the JTC 1 TAG Secretariat. Items of interest to the X3T9 community are: Apparently comments made at last year’s Milano meeting confused 4 Minutes of X3T9.2 Plenary Meeting #104 in Austin, TX X3T9.2/93-033R1 the delegation from Germany into thinking that the PCMCIA is included in the family of X3T9 projects. Consequently the IR sent IR92015 to Juergen Schwandt explaining the actual status of PCMCIA. For those that lack the appropriate words, the JTC 1 TAG has distributed JT92-1148 92/10/14 Permuted Index of Information Technology Vocabulary. JTC 1 letter ballots on the NP’s for HIPPI FP, HIPPI LE, HIPPI SC, and FC-PH Close 2/22/93. SC 26 will receive several interesting NP’s.